English Department Points of Pride: 2008-2009

Faculty Publications
Faculty and Lecturer Awards
CAS Dean's Program Development Incentive Award
Graduate Students Honors
Graduate Students Moving to Advanced Degree Program
English Department Scholarship Recipients
Undergraduate Research Symposium Presenters
Graduate Research Fair Presenters



Faculty publications

Linda Adler-Kassner, The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writers and Writing

Phillip Arrington, Rhetoric’s Agons

Lori Burlingame, In Beauty I Walk: The Literary Roots of Native American Writing

Cheryl Cassidy, Women and Empire, 1750–1939, 5-vol. set Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism

David Calonne, Charles Bukowski: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, Uncollected Stories and Essays 1944-1990

Craig Dionne, Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage

Harry Eiss, Adolescent Literature and Culture and Insanity and Genius

Cathy Fleischer, Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres

David Geherin, Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction

Carla Harryman, Adorno’s Noise and The Grand Piano

Christine Hume, Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense

Natasa Kovacevic, Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

James Pinson, The Art of Editing: In the Age of Convergence.

John Staunton, Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of “English” for 21st Century Schools

Faculty and Lecturer Awards

Linda Adler-Kassner, 2008 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Service to the University

Linda Adler-Kassner, 2008 Josephine Keal Grant

Lori Burlingame, Student Gold Medallion Award for the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award

Karen Dykstra, 2008-2009 Outstanding Lecturer in the Classroom, CAS

Christine Hume, 2008 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Creative Activity

Robin Lucy, 2008-2009 Holman Learning Award for Outstanding Faculty in Supplemental Instruction

Carol Schlagheck, 2008 Josephine Keal Grant

Daniel Seely, Graduate Mentoring Award for 2009! Congratulations to Dan and the Linguistics Program.

John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University Scholarship Recognition Award for 2008 for Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of “English” for 21st Century Schools

John Staunton and Kristin Gedeon, National Writing Project Teacher Inquiry Communities grant, 2009-2010

Bill Tucker, 2008-2009 Holman Learning Award for Outstanding Faculty in Classroom Instruction, CAS

Tom Ulch II, 2008-2009 Holman Learning Award for Tutor/SI Excellence, CAS

CAS Dean’s Program Development Incentive Award

Cathy Fleischer, Bill Tucker, Doug Baker, and John Staunton for English Studies for Teachers outreach.

Andrea Kaston-Tange, Laura George, Elisabeth Daumer, Christine Hume, and John Staunton for Poetry for Teachers development.

Graduate Students Honors

Megan Zdrojkowski Avram, Graduate Thesis Award (Linguistics), EMU Graduate School

Bill Barr, Flash Fiction Jam Award, Wilkes University.

 

Grad Students Moving to Advanced Degree Programs

Bill Barr, accepted to the Bangor University, Wales for Creative Writing

Jeff Butcher, accepted to Michigan State and Arizona State, Ph.D. in Literature

Adam Fagin, California College of Art, MFA

Nathan Holmes, accepted to Wayne State University, Ph.D. in Literature

Alexis Keilb, accepted to the University of Iowa, Ph.D. in Literature

Nathan Kelber, accepted to the University of Maryland, Ph.D. in Literature

Scott Kowalewski, accepted to Michigan Tech and Kent State University, Ph.D. in Written Communication

Stephanie Morse, accepted at USCB and the University of Oregon, Ph.D. in Linguistics

Luisa Newlin-Lukowicz, accepted at New York University and short-listed at Oregon State University and Georgetown, Ph.D. in Linguists

Dan Parker, accepted into the University of Connecticut and the University of Delaware and shortlisted at Maryland, Ph.D. in Linguistics

Nicholas Prokup, accepted to the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies at Catholic University of America and Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, MA

Matthew Muth, accepted to the University of Washington-Seattle, MFA

Bethany Townsend, accepted to Rice University and UCSB, Ph.D in Linguistics

Andrew Winckles, accepted into Wayne State University, Ph.D. in Literature

Melissa Woodworth, Minnesota State University and University of Baltimore, MFA

Mary Wilson, accepted to Louisiana State University, Ph.D. in Literature

English Department Scholarship Recipients

Nathaniel Bankirer, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Bill Barr, Distinguished Graduate Research Award in Creative Writing
Anthony D. Gillum, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Leslie Ann Halliwill, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Amanda C. Hamon, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Noelle Havens, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
David Hillbom, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Lindsay Anne Johnson, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Jenny Kukeski, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Kathryn M. Riddle, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award
Jennifer Rose, Distinguished Graduate Research Award in Children’s Literature
Siobhan A. Stevens, Mariam Turbin Scholarship Award
Alison M. Zaharee, Irene Little Wallace Scholarship Award

Undergraduate Research Symposium Presenters

Elizabeth Marion Ali: Mothers, Survival, Loneliness and Death: Freeman’s “A New England Nun” and “The Lost Ghost” (Csicsila)

Katie Q. Barnes: Chihiro to Sen, Spirited Away: A Hero Journey? (Most)

Julia Marie Bayha: “Where light touches the face, the character for Heart is written” (Neff)

Allison N. Bondie: St. Secretary: Cecilia’s Subordination in Chaucer’s “Second Nun’s Tale” (Neufeld)

James Timothy Bowman: Admiration for Feminine Morality in Tennyson’s “The Mermaid” and “The Merman” (Neufeld)

Amy Renee Burnett: Exploring the Relationship between the Natural World and Humankind in “Mont Blanc” (George)

Audrey Converse: Plath, Sexton and the Image of Jewishness (Cunningham)

David George Ferguson: The Linguistic Seductress: Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” and the Language of Feminism (Neufeld)

Julia Jenista: The Dreams We Don’t Speak of: Adoption Poems as Memoir (Neff)

Alan Jay Keskitalo: The Caves Slam Shut: What the Popol Vuh Deluge Tale Says About Pre-Columbian Quiche Maya Culture (Most)

Kelli M. Massa: Isabella and Her Moral Decisions in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (Knapp)

Lauryn Alysa Navarre: Frankenstein’s True Tormentors: His Id, Ego and Superego” (Kovacevic)

Irina Nersessova: Ravage, Rejection, Regeneration: Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a Case Against Forgetting (Däumer)

Nicholas R. Prokup: The Word Made Flesh: Language and Incarnation in The Cloud of Unknowing (Neufeld)

James M. Rains: The Waste Land: Eliot’s Lament of Fragmentation (Däumer)

Jessica Brin Richardson, Amanda Renee Wetzel, Katelin Bonk, Kerstin Lanney Shooter, and Shelby Marie Schmidbauer: Harnessing the Persuasive Power of Celebrities: A Rhetorical Analysis of Endorsements (Tracy)

David Frederick Wurtsmith: The Abyss Gazes Also: Five Methods of Coping with Existential Crisis in Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen (Holkeboer)

Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Sessions

Michelle Elizabeth Kukan, “Contemporary Problems in a Comprehensive Editing Client Project” (Pinson)

Graduate Research Fair Presenters

Abdulhamit Arvas: Loss of Metanarratives in the Postmodern World of The History of Love and The PowerBook” (Daumer)

Teresa Asiain: “Not my daughter, bad witch”: Loss of Meaning in the Translation of the Harry Potter Series into Spanish” (Wannamaker)

Allison Marie Fuhrman: Finding Neverland: The Adult's Impossible Journey to Childhood (Wannamaker)

Sarah Goletz: Power, Patriarchy, Resistance: A Feminist Apologia of “Cinderella” (Wannamaker)

Fatima Ijaz: Bivocality in Durrell’s Text: “Outremer” (Aristar-Dry)

Jessica Paula DeYoung Kander: Curious Critters: Queer Subtext in Three Picture Books (Wannamaker)

Ania Kubisz: A Comparative Study of Devoicing of Word-final [d] in Polish, German, and Aave (Goodman)

Ferdinan Okki Kurniawan: Verb-initial Word Order of Non-action Verbs in Jakarta Indonesian (Seely)

Angela Laginess: “Click, Clack, Moo Cows that do as They Choose: A Critical Analysis of Doreen Cronin’s Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type” (Wannamaker)

Matthew Lahrman: LL-MAP: Synthesizing SE Asia Language Maps (Aristar-Dry)

Hunter Thompson Lockwood: From Paper Maps to GIS: A Case Study at the Alaska Native Language Center (Aristar-Dry)

Alison Marie Malburg: The Transaction of Abjection and Agency in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Jones)

Patrick Manning: Under youre yerde: Power, Martyrdom, and Free Will in Chaucer’s “The Clerk’s Tale” (Neufeld)

Maria Montagnini: Sovereignty or Submission: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and the 18th Century Sublime (Neufeld)

Sarah Nolen: An Examination of Male Friendships in Myth (Most)

Jui Pagedar: Benjamin’s Alienated Individual in Fictional Communities (Däumer)

Kayti Purkiss: Women in Video Games: From Stereotypical Representations to Experimentation in Personas (Wannamaker)

Evelyn Richter: The Acquisition of Prefix Verbs and Particle Verbs in German: Evidence from CHILDES (Seely)

Sheryl Ruskzkiewicz: A Glimpse of the Past in the Future: Mina Loy and the Crab Nebula (Däumer )

Nicole Guinot Varty: “The Smart One”: Untangling the Social Web of Literacy Practices for Dyslexic Readers (Baker)

Kate Stephanie Williams: Sylvia Plath: A Modernist Poet? (Däumer)

Sara Williams: Migraine and the Migraineur (Hume)

Andrew Winckles: “My Own Eyes Are Not Enough”: T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and the Christian Theoretical Tradition (Däumer)

Kate S-H. Wu: Constraints on Double-Gapped Restrictive Relative Clauses in Mandarin (Seely)

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